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Under A Mango Tree

There is a 34-year-old Muslim man, a troublesome thief called Salim, who came to Christ yesterday. After he stole a bicycle, he was caught and stoned almost to death. This man was a real troublemaker; he got imprisoned four times after he stole, and many times broke into houses and stole various things.

During our one-on-one street Evangelism, we met a crowd of about 100 in the street while some of those people were stoning the man. When we reached that place, we did our level best to intervene in the situation in the name of Jesus Christ. We shouted alleluia with the mic; we had our Peavey. The people stopped beating the thief; then we asked the people why they had such aggression against the man. The people replied, “We are tired of this man; he is a dangerous thief in this village. This is the reason why we are making justice with our own hands to get him finished today.”

We found that place to be the right one for our Open-Air-Meeting. We took the thief and put him to our side, and we started singing Gospel songs and dancing. The meeting came to sound like a birthday party; the passers-by stopped and joined us as well. After we sang three songs, we began preaching and had 89 lost souls, including the Muslim thief, brought to Christ. We started a new Church with 71 members. Just right there beside the street, we found a big mango tree, and we made it our shade.

Mark Mozambique